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Origin: Zordin
Calling: Mastermind
Starting ability: ✪Tame
Language: Antediluvian
Literacy: –
Starting companion: Pet polymermaid or debaucher-sloth
Monsters, also known by Zordin as dreamspawn and by most other people as demons, are the supposed progeny of Yom, the shapeshifting dragon god of the Chaos realm. Some Zordin even say the various people of the Skysea descended from Yom. To understand dreamspawn, then, one must understand Yom and the unfathomable god’s many “Faces.” Legends tell of a dozen or so of such Faces, all of which are shaped like enormous serpents or worms. Each Face is associated with a certain group of monsters.Antediluvian-speaker. You speak the language of Yom the Ancient One, whose Faces have names from the impenetrable language of Antediluvian—Yom the Arthropod, Yom the Cnidarian, Yom the Echinoderm, Yom the Polymeroid, among others. You start with this ability:
Ask the Guide:
Which Face of Yom does that creature belong to?
What are some of its likely abilities?
How aggressive is it?
✪ Tame
✪ Tame
Starting ability
Take -1 awareness and Compel a monster in the Fray with you. Gain tame-focus equal to your result, minus the monster’s current spirit. If subtracting the monster’s spirit results in a negative number, reduce any focus you’ve accumulated so far—the attempt can reverse progress you’ve made—though you can’t end up with negative focus. Spend tame-focus equal to the monster’s Weight to shift its regard for you. If hostile, it becomes wary; if wary, it becomes friendly.If you or your allies attack a monster you’ve used this ability on, you lose all tame-focus and the monster becomes hostile.
Starting Pets
Make sure to name your companion when you start the game. The creature is friendly to you and your allies and is inclined to obey your commands, within reasonable limits (both creatures are afraid of battle). The Guide controls the monster but may ask you to roll for them. Starting Pets
A debaucher-sloth is native to the forestcliffs of far-flung islands. It moves incredibly slowly and would seem to be easy prey for almost any carnivore, but there’s something about its gaze—equal parts adorable and unsettling—that protects it. Your sloth is tame, friendly to your allies, and can be urged to stay put or (very slowly) follow you. You or another character can carry the sloth on your back, with the following drawbacks:
- You must reduce your maximum Grace, Strength, and Awareness by 1
- You have a -1 penalty to Maneuvers, Braces, and Moves.
- The sloth takes up one of your Back carrying slots
A polymermaid is a tiny living doll from the Shattered Planet with the upper body of a beautiful young woman and the lower body of a fish. They swim gracefully through thin air, and they enjoy singing.Your polymermaid is tame and friendly to your allies, but doesn’t like to stay in one place. It’s prone to wandering off and collecting garbage. But it’s always happy to share a song during a rest.
Abilities to Learn
Abilities to Learn
✪ Secrets of the Chaos-Spawn
✪ Secrets of the Chaos-Spawn
Mark of AWARENESS
You gain 3 revelations distributed as you like among the following lore, but not more than 2 for any single lore. Dream, Forestcliffs, Medicine, RidingAdditionally, you can learn more about monsters during a rest:Antediluvian Classification As an endeavor when you rest, describe how you examine a monster specimen to learn something fundamental about its nature. There are three main approaches:
Or you can come up with your own approach to this examination, and the Guide determines which die to roll. No matter your result, you learn what Face of Yom the creature belongs to, along with its max attributes and Life.On a 4 or higher, choose one of the following observations, which apply to all monsters of the Face of Yom you encounter henceforth.
On an 8 or higher, you can choose two observations. You can only gain the benefit of each observation once for each Face of Yom.
- Dissection: Maneuver yourself, requires dagger
- Ingestion: Brace yourself
- Communion: Compel yourself, and the specimen must be alive
Or you can come up with your own approach to this examination, and the Guide determines which die to roll. No matter your result, you learn what Face of Yom the creature belongs to, along with its max attributes and Life.On a 4 or higher, choose one of the following observations, which apply to all monsters of the Face of Yom you encounter henceforth.
- Weak spot:When you strike a lethal hit against the monster, you inflict extra life damage equal to your core Awareness.
- Soft spot: You have a +2 bonus when you Compel the monster.
- Blind spot:You have a +2 bonus when you Maneuver against the monster.
On an 8 or higher, you can choose two observations. You can only gain the benefit of each observation once for each Face of Yom.
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